The Works of the British Dramatists: Carefully Selected from the Original Editions with Biographical Notes, Etc., EtcW.W. Swayne, 1870 - 509 pages |
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... appear to have formed a class by them- selves , mixing little with general society ; but most of them leading a strange kind of wild ' Bohemian ' existence , having no fixed abode , living mostly in taverns and other strange places ...
... appear to have formed a class by them- selves , mixing little with general society ; but most of them leading a strange kind of wild ' Bohemian ' existence , having no fixed abode , living mostly in taverns and other strange places ...
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... appear at such exhibitions . The Manuel de Peché , mentioned above , expressly mentions both the interior and the cemeteries of churches as the scenes of such performances . Even long after it had become customary to exhibit miracle ...
... appear at such exhibitions . The Manuel de Peché , mentioned above , expressly mentions both the interior and the cemeteries of churches as the scenes of such performances . Even long after it had become customary to exhibit miracle ...
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... appear on the stage ' in all the simplicity of immortal costume , ' until , after having eaten of the forbidden fruit , they discover their nakedness . In the Chester play , Adam , after having tasted the ' griefful ' ( to use an ...
... appear on the stage ' in all the simplicity of immortal costume , ' until , after having eaten of the forbidden fruit , they discover their nakedness . In the Chester play , Adam , after having tasted the ' griefful ' ( to use an ...
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... appears highly probable that the influences just mentioned had some- thing to do in helping to give it birth , and ... appear to have been used in- differently to designate any kind of play , and were sometimes also applied to poetical ...
... appears highly probable that the influences just mentioned had some- thing to do in helping to give it birth , and ... appear to have been used in- differently to designate any kind of play , and were sometimes also applied to poetical ...
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... appears to have written other comedies , but this is the only one which has come down to us , and in the prologue the author calls it a comedy or interlude . From this prologue we might infer that the comedies of Plautus and Terence ...
... appears to have written other comedies , but this is the only one which has come down to us , and in the prologue the author calls it a comedy or interlude . From this prologue we might infer that the comedies of Plautus and Terence ...
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Page 120 - Her lips suck forth my soul, see where it flies! Come Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.
Page 108 - And, seeing there was no place to mount up higher, Why should I grieve at my declining fall? — Farewell, fair queen; weep not for Mortimer, That scorns the world, and, as a traveller, Goes to discover countries yet unknown.
Page 163 - Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered, still perfumed : Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace : Robes loosely flowing, hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art ; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
Page 112 - Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it. Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being depriv'd of everlasting bliss? O, Faustus, leave these frivolous demands, Which strike a terror to my fainting soul!
Page l - With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple of his chin. All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes. She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this to thee? What shall, alas ! become of me?
Page 317 - Of what is't fools make such vain keeping? Sin their conception, their birth weeping, Their life a general mist of error, Their death a hideous storm of terror. Strew your hair with powders sweet, Don clean linen, bathe your feet, And (the foul fiend more to check) A crucifix let bless your neck : 'Tis now full tide 'tween night and day ; End your groan, and come away.
Page 56 - He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Page 56 - Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
Page 110 - All things that move between the quiet poles Shall be at my command : emperors and kings Are but obeyed in their several provinces, Nor can they raise the wind or rend the clouds ; But his dominion that exceeds in this Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man, A sound magician is a mighty god : Here, Faustus, tire thy brains to gain a deity.
Page 114 - And long ere this I should have slain myself, Had not sweet pleasure conquered deep despair, Have not I made blind Homer sing to me Of Alexander's love and CEnon's death? And hath not he that built the walls of Thebes With ravishing sound of his melodious harp, Made music with my Mephistophilis ? Why should I die then, or basely despair ? I am resolved.- Faustus shall ne'er repent— Come, Mephistophilis, let us dispute again, And argue of divine Astrology.